Aims to defend the basic inherited Judao/Christian tone and fabric of Australian society at the national level (culturally not doctrinally). Aims to use persuasion and information to eliminate the threat of political Islam. Will engage in activism to prevent the expansion of any illegal activity aimed at expanding Islamic influence, and will seek to influence Law in pursuit of those aims. We will also highlight the threat of Green/Socialist undermining of Aussie society and Law.

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The Pen is mightier than the sword, but the Pen must sometimes move the sword against corruption if the corrupt are not moved by the pen.. An idea without an implementer is useless. "The Rulers do not carry the sword in vain"Rom 13:4

Monday, May 13, 2013

Why Communist Atheism Failed to convince the Masses (Russia)

The masses are conservative by nature. Robispierre discovered this during the French Revolution and this is why, after slaughtering countless thousands of priests, he tried to provide a 'revolutionary substitute' for their religious inclinations. He removed the Virgin Mary statue from the Cathedral and Notre Dame and replaced it with the "godess of reason"..which went over like a Jewish Settler at a Taliban Conference. Even the statue of "Liberty"(America) is in fact the godess of Liberty from Frances revolutionary period.

The Russians believed that rational and persistent instruction in atheism would change a generation of children and bring about new attitudes of socialist utopia. That flew like a lead balloon.

Atheism leads only to either cold meaningless absurdity and emtpy hedonism (for honest atheists), or..to pathetic and irrational sentimentality for the humanists. They remind me of a person sliding unstoppably down an icey slope ( I know what that's like..it's awful) trying to use the fingernails of sentimentality to halt their descent into philosophical and moral oblivion.

Mankind has an inner longing to know the answers to the huge questions of life. He/she needs and longs for some means of relating to the cosmos that gives meaning to existence. There are of course some hardy souls who shout from the mountain top of confidence that they make their own meaning, but the end up careening down into the swamp of confusion when subjected to the glaring light of philosophical scrutiny.

History has tried to answer this fundamental huma dilemna in the various forms of Stoicism, Epicureansim, Utilitarianism and many other philoshpical 'ism's, but as J.S. Mill pointed out...

No
two ages,and scarcely any two countries, have
decided it alike and the decision of one age or country is a wonder
to another. Yet the people of any given age and country no more
suspect any difficulty in it, than if it were a subject on which
mankind had always been agreed. The rules which obtain among
themselves appear to them self-evident and selfjustifying. This all
but universal illusion is one of the examples of the magical
influence of custom, which is not only, as the proverb says a second
nature, but is continually mistaken for the first.

Mill was referring here to the issue of how far a society should to in imposing it's will on private liberty..but the principle applies also to the issue of faith and solutions to the philosophical challenge about meaning and ethics.
Mill was a post enlightemnent thinker who was deliberately brought up by his father as an absolute rationalist and 'protected' from any theological or religious "impurities" to his developing intellect.
I observe however that Mill does speak with considerable fondness of Christ. It seems his intellectual inocculation was unsuccessful at least in part.

The scriptures describe this religious conservatism clearly.

He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. (Ecc 3:11)

That was written before the New Testament. We now do have the full picture.

8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”(Rev 1:8)

And there you have it. History comprises of the beginning... of the fulfillment in Christ and is moving towards the ultimate consummation at His return.

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History is marked with pivotal moments.

BATTLE for ROMEFor the Romans it was the appoinment of Fabius Maximus as temporary dictator in the face of repeated defeats by Hannibal of Carthage. Army after Roman army had been outwitted and slaughtered by Hannibals better tactics. Now he was at the gates of ROME itself. The decision to appoint Fabius saved Rome. He did not confront Hannibal face to face, but embarked on a geurilla war, scortched earth and attrition. Eventually Hannibal had to simply 'go away' because to stay would mean starvation for his army. Rome, was saved.

BATTLE OF TOURS 732In this battle, the rampaging Muslims from Spain sought to take over France. They slashed and burned their way through the Pyranee mountains and into Frankish territory, but were met by a much smaller but well trained and disciplined army of only infantry... led by Charles (The Hammer) Martel.The Muslims were driven away, soundly defeated, and France was saved.

BATTLE of VIENNA 1683 After a long Muslim siege and invasion, their hordes ended up at the gates of Vienna. The last major stronghold of European civilization was set to be swallowed by the ever advancing merciless Islamic juggernaut.over a hundred thousand Muslim soldiers were poised to strike. Jan III Sobieski, with his Polish cavalry came at the last moment.. "here comes the cavalry" and the Muslim Turks were sent packing never to return.....until now, by stealth and immigration and fertility rate.

Now... the time has come for those who can see the past, predict the future and process current events in that light, who can then choose strategies to influence the social order in the interests of all that is decent, pure and enduring. No such mission occurs in an ideological vacuum, it must have a source an underlying ideology. This blog is of the view that new people make good societies, not new systems. Some systems are more viable than others. Plato covers these in his 5 regimes. Rousseau tried his hand at it in his Social Contract, Robispierre tried it with the French Revolution, Marx thought he had the final answer, Hitler tried his final solution, and they all fell apart. If you begin with a flawed idea, you will end with a disfuntional society. The Enlightenment was in reality the endarkenment, opening human minds to so called 'reason'. But even then, Kant's view of what enlightenment is, was just one of around 50 contemporary viewpoints. No matter what else people think, there is only ONE viewpoint or 'law' so to speak which works. "Do for others as you would have them do for you"..it covers everything, except one. That 'one' is the source of motivation to do just that. If humanity is left to itself, the might is right. The one who has the authority for loving your neighbout is none other than He who said "Hear oh Israel".